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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India

● Developed cost models for freight forecasting● Assessed transportation performance through freight analytics● Handled domestic transportation for part supplies and finished goods deliveries to dealers● Handled exports of spare parts and engines● Freight forwarder procurement and freight accounting● Developed annual cost models for freight estimates with an accuracy of about 80%● Tracking operational performance of our team in terms of compliance, velocity and cost (eg.) measuring how compliant are all our shipments in terms of documentation & declarations, adherence to our standard transit times and how cost effective is our operations.● Supported all inland movements in India and additional support on exports.Project - Freight Spend Analytics for the facilities in India, Indonesia and Thailand● Developed a simple to use, yet comprehensive, dashboard via Tableau to enable easy monitoring and identification of opportunities; dashboard covers supplier-level freight spend as well as leg-wise split of transit time from supplier door to factory door● Improved freight cost spend by optimizing network to bring about approximately $200,000 annual savings● Optimized scheduling to weekly schedules in accordance with pickup timelines to provide estimated $50,000 annual savings

Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India

● Freight analytics to identify and monitor key performance indicators, such as transit time adherence and compliant shipping● Support for domestic parts supplies and spare part exportation● Develop and implementing improvement initiatives in our transportation network● Set up standardised processes for inbound and outbound processes for our clients and as well as processes for encouraging and implementing continuous improvement ideas in my team● Working as a Logistics Analyst in the Logistics Professional Development Program (LPDP), supporting importation, exportation and domestic transportation operations. ● Planning vehicle placement, optimizing vehicle utilization, coordinating customs clearance of parts and products, freight accounting are few of my regular activities.● Involved in new project implementation and cost-reduction projects.Project - Implementation of transportation network and freight process in the development of Perkins Engines' new facility in Aurangabad● Domestic and export networks set up● Freight accounting process set up● Support of importation of required capital equipmentsProject - Development of Caterpillar India's External Warehouse Hub in Hosur● Transportation set up for inter-warehouse and intra-warehouse movements● Freight forwarder negotiations for warehouse movements● Cost estimation and analysis for external warehouse

● Identified some of the real world inefficiencies present in the current India Retail Agro-Supply Chain and attempted mathematical and system dynamical modeling of the same for analysis.● Identifying practical roadblocks to an efficient supply chain in the agriculture sector in India and propose measures to mitigate them● Visited the warehouses and outlets of few of the top retailers in Chennai,(including Reliance, Spencer and Niligiris) to understand challenges they faced being at different stages in the supply chain